Quotes by : William O. Douglas

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.....

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free....

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived....

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday....

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived....

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when....

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens....

The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas,....